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MaKey Makey & Scratch

1. Start with the Getting Started with MaKey Makey & Scratch and write a simple Scratch Program and hook up a MaKey Makey to control it.
   This video might help if you get stuck.
2. Add everyday "things" to the Makey Makey to use as arrow keys, spacebar, and a click and check out some Scratch project examples:
   • MaKey MaKey Games
   • Simple Piano
   • MaKey Makey Instruments
   • If you are using the Makey Makey Go (only one button), look at these ideas

1. Create your own game, animation, story, musical instrument in Scratch that use the keys you can hook to a Makey Makey. Check for some inspiration here:
   • Musical Instruments
   • Soundboard
   • Another Instrument example
   • How about a Fruit Ninja style game? This isn't in English but it's an example with real fruit!
2. Create your controller for your game, animation, story, instrument - be creative!
3. Record a video of your project where we can see your controller and the screen but no faces of people.

Animation in Google Slides

1. Go to Google Drive and navigate to your 2015/16 Computers Public folder. Create a new Google Slides presentation and set up the background for it.
2. Now, either draw (using the drawing tools) what you want to animate or search for clip art of something to animate and add it to the first slide in the starting position. NOTE: If you draw something and it contains more than one element, make sure to select all of the elements and group them together so you can move them all at the same time.
3. Create a new slide as a duplicate of your first slide and move and/or rotate and/or alter your image slightly. Then create another new slide as a duplicate of your second slide and move and/or rotate and/or alter your image slightly. Continue this process until you have all the slides you need; you will need more than you think! Don't move it too far too fast; the less ambitious example above moved things too far so the animation was a bit choppy. The less you move, the smoother the animation will be.

1. Go to File / Publish to Web and select the Link OR Embed (to share on your Google Site) option
2. Set the following: Auto Advance Every Second, Start slideshow as soon as the player loads, and, optionally, Restart the slideshow after the last slide.
3. You will need to edit the link OR the embed code (to share on your Google Site) and change the delayms=1000 (at the end of the link) to something less than 1000. You will want to play with this to see what works best for your animation.